{"id":53438,"date":"2023-03-15T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/kia-ora-e-hoa-dozens-of-new-zealand-and-maori-words-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:17:56","slug":"kia-ora-e-hoa-dozens-of-new-zealand-and-maori-words-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53438","title":{"rendered":"Kia ora e hoa: dozens of New Zealand and M\u0101ori words added to Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-added words include koha \u2013 a gift or offering \u2013 and k\u014drero, meaning a conversation or chat<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders will now see the common and casual te reo M\u0101ori greeting Kia ora e hoa! \u2013 meaning \u201chi mate\u201d \u2013 in their Oxford English Dictionaries, as the institution moves to recognise the \u201cprofound and lasting impact\u201d the Indigenous tongue has had on New Zealand\u2019s language.<\/p>\n<p>E hoa, or friend, is one of 47 New Zealand English words or expressions added to the dictionary in its latest update \u2013 most of them in te reo M\u0101ori, which is an official language of New Zealand. The OED describes itself as the definitive record of the English language.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/kia-ora-e-hoa-dozens-of-new-zealand-and-maori-words-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-added words include koha \u2013 a gift or offering \u2013 and k\u014drero, meaning a conversation or chatNew Zealanders will now see the common and casual te reo M\u0101ori greeting Kia ora e hoa! \u2013 meaning \u201chi mate\u201d \u2013 in their Oxford English Dictionaries, as the in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions\/53439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}